I am totally fed up with the discrimination I see in “Health Care” that masquerades as a legitimate treatment system and is basically a sickness care, disease management, and pharmaceutical distributrion network. As far as health and healthy people go, they don’t want them!

This man from the Ruiz West Pennway Graffiti Gallery in Kansas City might use anger as a tool

That’s us, the drugged, diffused, diagnosed, downtrodden, disease-having, dollar-producing “consumers,” but this is about the whole society, not just people who are physically stressed so that our brains are affected.

A lot of people think using Twitter is pointless because it’s all just trivial conversations.

However, using Twitter is also a way to share Internet links with 100 or 1000 people that you highly respect, saying, “Here’s an article right along your interests.” It’s like a personalized magazine where you can interact with the authors.

People say they don’t have time for using Twitter, but you really don’t have time NOT to use it in specific and social messaging in general.

Using Twitter does not require you to be home at your computer You can send and

When you look at things on personalized Internet search engines, your own social media, your cell phone, and GPS navigation tool, they’re looking back at you, recording electronically all kinds of personal information about your likes, political beliefs, friends, phone contacts, where you are, and where you go, a new book says.

Mathematical formulas (algorithms) turn that personal information into an electronic profile of your likes, dislikes, habits, and beliefs, and those of your friends. They turn the information into money by creating a profile of you, and sending

Collaboration is a good idea with something underlying. Some people are torn between the traditional ideas of the industrial marketplace, and the newer, more collaborative model. Trying to put those traditional ideas inside this new collaborative model creates a lot of stress and friction.

The most powerful place to live within this competition between old ides and the new collaborative model is also the brightest hope for entrepreneurs and free enterprise. The new collaborative model is NOT the marketplace model.

How do people get compensated for their work, while doing good in that world? Look

Until recently, I could lose myself in the Internet, but I ddn’t feel like it. I could flip my screen to another window, glance at lines of text, pretend to read, and get into a mode where I learn and absorb nothing, only a sense of urgency and overwhelm.

I don’t think human beings evolved to represent our thoughts in multiple words and paragraphs at the drop of a hat. Maybe this technology allows us to say more than we can truly establish for ourselves. Maybe I can’t just conjure up a representation of

Recently, I got “beat up” by the language police in a bloody Facebook fight. I was charged with:

1. Using the term “SMI” to refer to the “Seriously Mentally Ill” population.

2. Asserting that conditions like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder were “organic brain disorders,” different than situational issues such as trauma-based depression or stress-related anxiety.

The “language police,” aware of my personal history with traumas from hospitalizations and misdiagnoses, blasted me for my “hypocrisy,” and “holier than thou” attitude. Many people shared stories of having been traumatized by narrow-minded or inaccurate

The group of us who started a new drop-in center did a tremendous amount of research before we started. First, I had lived in the community for nearly 20 years, as had many of the people in our organizing group. We did multiple focus groups asking consumers in the community what they wanted. We ended up finding two groups of consumers with different needs.

One group had already taken advantage of most of the mental health programs that existed, and wanted more than they had to offer. The other group consisted of people who basically had not been in other

The text editing tools on your word processor are the same as your website’s dashboard. Your website’s non-verbal editing tools can be just as satisfying and creative.

You have a cursor you can move with your mouse or mouse pad, or the arrow keys on your keyboard. Two sliders, on the right edge of the copy block and right edge of the page, move your copy, or the page, up and down without changing it. Buttons above the copy make or unmake highlighted words bold or italic, or start bulleted or

It’s best, before you start your own website, to state in one or two simple sentences what it will be for. You can always change, add, or subtract from that, or have more than one purpose, but starting a big, ongoing project without some goal or direction is a good way to drift or get lost.

Hosting your own website amplifies your presence

People are more likely to become regular visitors to your site if they can identify its purpose(s).

Hosting your own website is fun and empowering. Many people are terrified of the idea, and see website management

Editor’s Note: This video is a good social messaging tip because you can see how Bill McKibben, author and environmentalist, uses young people to make change, uses humor, uses audience engagement. 350.org can teach all empowerment movements some lessons from how they work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdF8wz4Jwm8

Although climate change is not the focus on Wellness Wordworks, it has the same root causes and perpetuating factors as the worst problems in the mental health care system. In all cases, large, powerful corporations are making money off doing things in a way that hurts small, non-influential In the language of the Occupy movement, the

I’m an oboist who just happens to have a diagnosis, but there are very very few opportunities for me to get together with others in the mental health community to make music. We should do this outside our community, but when I had an episode, I lost my ability to read and play music. A mental health culture — others who might have similar problems — would help me get it back before I try again in the larger community.

One thing to notice about a symphony is that it is, first and foremost, an alignment of wholes — all players in their own place with their own instruments, their own voice. Each also shares the desire to harmonize, blend their voices, and create beauty. Mental health advocacy and a symphony should be more alike.

The thread that ties the players and music together is responsibility, each one, all together. taking personal responsibility for the music’s perfection, for their part, and, ultimately, for the harmony. The alignment of wholes, all commited to producing the same grand result, say Handel’s Messiah.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is making your page so that Google, Bing, Yahoo and other search engines are more likely to to pull up your particular website. There are certain techniques to use that make these web crawlers are more likely to find you. This post is about on-page SEO, which means editing your blog post as you go to improve your search results.

See the face? On-page SEO can help people see things they didn't before.